Matt McIlvane

Matt McIlvane
Date of birth	2nd November 1985
place of birth	Naperville , Illinois , USA
size	180 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	center
number	# 17
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 8th round, 251st position Ottawa Senators
Career stations
2001-2003	Chicago Freeze
2003-2004	Chicago Steel
2004-2008	Ohio State University
2008-2009	Polar bears Berlin
2009-2011	Bloomington PrairieThunder Peoria Rivermen

Matt McIlvane
Coaching stations
2011–2012	Danville Dashers
2012-2013	Orlando Solar Bears ( Assistant Trainer )
2013-2014	EC Red Bull Salzburg ( assistant coach )
2014-2019	EHC Red Bull Munich ( assistant coach )
since 2019	EC Red Bull Salzburg

Matthew McIlvane (born November 2, 1985 in Naperville , Illinois ) is an American ice hockey coach and former player. He has been the head coach of EC Red Bull Salzburg since June 2019 .

Career as a player

McIlvane began his hockey career in 2001 in the US Junior League North American Hockey League with the Chicago Freeze . The center played only two games there in its first season, but was used regularly in the following season and was able to score 56 points in 53 games. Consequently, those responsible for some NHL teams became aware of the left shooter.

During the NHL Entry Draft 2004 it was the Ottawa Senators who selected him in the eighth round in a total of 251st place. After another season in the United States Hockey League with the Chicago Steel McIlvane got a scholarship in the summer of 2004 at Ohio State University , for which he played from then on in the university league Central Collegiate Hockey Association . In his senior season he was captain of the "Buckeyes". At the end of the 2007/08 season , the 1.75 m tall striker moved to the Binghamton Senators , the Ottawa Senators' farm team, for four games in the American Hockey League .

In the summer of 2008 McIlvane decided to move to Europe and completed a few test games for the Eisbären Berlin . In these games he convinced the management of the polar bears, so that he was on the ice for the polar bears in the 2008/09 season . In November 2008 he suffered a cruciate ligament tear in his left knee. After recovering from his injury, McIlvane played in North America between 2009 and 2012 for the Bloomington Prairie Thunders in the American Hockey League and CHL, the AHL club Peoria Rivermen and the Cincinnati Cyclones in the ECHL .

Career as a coach

After a few games for Bloomington PrairieThunder in the 2011/12 season, he ended his career due to injury and was head coach of the Danville Dashers of the Federal Hockey League .

In August 2013, McIlvane became assistant coach at EC Red Bull Salzburg in Austria under Don Jackson and followed him to Germany for EHC Red Bull Munich in June 2014 .

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2001/02	Chicago Freeze	NEAR		2	0	2	2	0
2002/03	Chicago Freeze	NEAR		53	23	33	56	89
2003/04	Chicago Steel	USHL		59	22nd	24	46	53		3	1	2	3	0
2004/05	Ohio State University	NCAA		42	1	5	6th	30th
2005/06	Ohio State University	NCAA		37	3	10	13	45
2006/07	Ohio State University	NCAA		36	6th	11	17th	18th
2007/08	Ohio State University	NCAA		41	5	11	16	24
2007/08	Binghamton Senators	AHL		4th	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Polar bears Berlin	DEL		14th	1	3	4th	31		-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				156	15th	37	52	117

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

successes

• 2016 German champion with the EHC Red Bull Munich

Web links

• Matt McIlvane at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cyclones Add Former Ohio State Captain Matt McIlvane. In: Cincinnati Cyclones. Retrieved February 7, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Polar bear shock! McIlvane's cruciate ligament tear. In: www.bz-berlin.de. Retrieved February 7, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Matt McIlvane. In: Elite Prospects. Retrieved February 7, 2016 . 
4. ↑ redbull.com, Featured: Matt McIlvane - Assistant Coach
5. ↑ Matt McIlvane Named Head Coach & General Manager | FHL Danville - Pointstreak Sites. (No longer available online.) In: www.pointstreaksites.com. Archived from the original on February 7, 2016 ; accessed on February 7, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ redbull.com, Matt McIlvane is the new Assistant Coach of EC Red Bull Salzburg
7. ↑ Munich gets reinforcements from Salzburg. In: Süddeutsche.de. June 5, 2014, accessed August 27, 2020 .